‎LESCLIDE Richard ( rédacteur en chef ) - Frédéric RAGAMEY ( directeur des Eaux-Fortes ) :‎
‎Paris à l'Eau-Forte. Actualité - Curiosité - Fantaisie. Premier Volume -> Troisième Volume (the first 51 issues bound in 3 vols.)‎

‎ Paris, R. Lesclide, rue Lafayette, Hôtel du Petit-Journal, 3 vols, large in-8°, 28,5 x 20 cm, bound in red half morocco, gilt title on decorated spine, marbled endpapers, boards covered with marbled paper. Top edge gilt. Very fine copy, in nice bindings, stainless interior. Available are the issues 1 (Mars 1873) -> issue 51 (22 mars 1874). Complete with all the engravings, with at the end of each volume the index ( texts and engravings). Fine tête de collection of this Parisian periodical published by Richard Lesclide ( 1825 - 1892) also publisher of e.g. Le vélocipède Illustré, Le Ballon Poste ( siege Paris 1870). He was secretary to Victor Hugo for 10 years. The engravings were mainly by the hand of Frédéric Régamey ( 1849 - 1925). Other engravers such as Jules Adeline , Félix Buhot, Cattelain, Félix Oudart, De Neuville....and many others were also contributors.Subscription to the periodical was 40 Fr. per year. This type of illustrated periodical ( extremely expensive and complicated to publish) reached a total of 187 issues and ended in 1877. It was almost certainly driven out of the market with the rise of good photographic reproduction. Paris à l'Eau-Forte remains a unique example of an illustrated periodical , witness of the cultural vitality and creativity in Paris after the horrible year 1870. See at length : 'Michael Pakenham - Paris à L'Eau-Forte de Richard Lesclide in Pierre Laforgue ( éd.) - Pratiques d'écritures. Mélanges de Poétique et d'Histoire littéraire offerts à Jean Gaudon, coll. ''Bibliothèque du XX e Siècle'' Paris, Klincksieck, 1996 , pp. 65-79.‎

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